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Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. by Proverbs 627-9 Bible Hebrew

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can I ever know you Or you know me by Sara Teasdale

Can't I live while I'm young by Phish

Can't the Marx Brothers be arrested and maybe even tortured for all the confusion and problems they've caused by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them. by Pierre Elliott Trudeau

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. by Roald Dahl

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. by Stanislaw Lem

Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted. by Anon.

Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion by Job 3831 Bible

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. by John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope. by Pete Holiday

Captain Oveur Joey, do you like movies about gladiators by Airplane

Care and diligence bring luck. by Thomas Fuller

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines. by Gary Sinise

Careful. We don't want to learn from this. by Bill Watterson

Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE. by CaddyShack

Carl would have to be fast to beat the stranger. Real fast. 'Draw,' said the stranger. Carl went for his gun, but then 'Hey, where did all these angels come from' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. by Horace

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. by Harry S Truman

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you. by Thomas a Kempis

Carter Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy You can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man. by Rush Hour

Carter My daddy'll kick your daddy's ass all the way from here to China, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great Wall too. by Rush Hour

Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth by Rush Hour

Carter This is the LAPD. We're the most hated cops in all the free world. My own mama's ashamed of me. She tells everybody I'm a drug dealer. by Rush Hour

Carter This is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito by Rush Hour

Carthago delenda est. (Carthage must be destroyed.) by Marcius Porcius Cato

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. by Kahlil Gibran

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too. by Henrik Ibsen

Cat a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. by Oliver Herford

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. by Unknown

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. by Stephen Baker

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. by Jeff Valdez

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture. by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. by Joseph Wood Krutch

Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education. by Mark Twain

CDOS CDOSRUN RUNDOSRUN by Anon.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants. by Horace

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh leave the light of Hope behind. by Thomas Campbell

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living by Amanda Bradley

Celebrations are the juice of life. by John D. Hofbrauer, Jr.

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away. by Carol Burnett

Censor a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business. by Bennett Alfred Cerf

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. by Noam Chomsky

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home but, unlike charity, it should end there. by Clare Booth Luce

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. by Jonathan Swift

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. by Jean Rostand

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. by Johann von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others. by Marquis de Sade

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. by Victor Hugo

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon) by Irving Layton

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do. by Richard Milhous Nixon

Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality. by William R Allen

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. by Hubert Humphrey

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. by Francis Bacon

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. by Miriam Beard

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. by George Gordon Byron

Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money. by Deane Jordan

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. by Robert Oxton Bolt

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouthTame the dragon and the gift is yours. by Noela Evans

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand. by Oprah Winfrey

Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. by Joshua J. Marine

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm. by David L Boren

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships. by Unknown

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. by Muhammad Ali

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. by Michael J. Gelb

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. by Euripides

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next. by John Kenneth Galbraith

Change everything except your loves. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. by King Jr. Whitney

Change in all things is sweet. by Aristotle

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional. by Glenda Cloud

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. by Benjamin Disraeli

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. by Christina Baldwin

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or need second, a decision to change-to fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change-the willful act of making the change Doing Something. by Dr.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Change starts when someone sees the next step. by William Drayton

Change your thoughts and you change your world. by Norman Vincent Peale

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. by Dorothy Allison

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. by Gail Sheehy

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving. by Penn Jillette

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. by Henry Miller

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. by Carl Weick

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. by Joan Didion

Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. by Faith Baldwin

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. by Hellen Keller

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. by James Albert Michener

Character develops itself in the stream of life. by Johann von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. by J. C. Watts

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing. by Abraham Lincoln

Character is much easier kept than recovered. by Thomas Paine

Character is not made in a crisis it is only exhibited. by Rose Dorothy Freeman

Character is power. by Booker T. Washington

Character is what can do without success. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is what you are in the dark. by Dwight Lyman Moody

Character is what you are when no one is looking. by Unknown

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. by Helen Gahagan Douglas

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. by Phillips Brooks

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. by Johann von Goethe

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Charity begins at home. by Terence

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. by John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

Charity sees the need not the cause. by German proverb

Charlie And I'd really like to kiss you, but that's not a good idea, because then we'd start kissing on the couch, and then we'd start kissing on the bed, and I don't wanna rush into spending the night together. Harriet I'd love to spend the night together. Charlie I have no problem with that by So I Married an Axe Murderer

Charlie Dad, how can you hate The Colonel Stuart Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass by So I Married an Axe Murderer

Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they made me horny, on Saturday morning... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love. by So I Married an Axe Murderer

Charlie You know, Scotland has its own martial arts. Yeah, it's called F-You. It's mostly just head butting and then kicking people when they're on the ground. by So I Married an Axe Murderer

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. by Henri Frdric Amiel

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. by Clarence Darrow

Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short. by Jeff Melvoin

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come. by Philander Johnson

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. by Charles Dickens

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. by Edwin Percy Whipple

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. by Joseph Addison

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. by Charlotte Bronte

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. by Oprah Winfrey

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. by Clifton Fadiman

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age. by Christopher Morley

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without. by Chuang-tzu

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. by Robert Henri

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments. by Napolean Hill

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. by Raymond Chandler

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. by Stanley Kubrick

Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath. by Joe Moore

Children are a poor man's wealth. by Danish proverb

Children are all foreigners. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural. by Alastair Reid

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them. by Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. by Jesse Lair

Children are our most valuable natural resource. by Herbert Clark Hoover

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. by Peter Ustinov

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them. by Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Children have more need of models than of critics. by Carolyn Coats

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us. by La Bruyere

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us. by Jean de la Bruyere

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. by James Arthur Baldwin

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. by Ernest Dimnet

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. by Abbe Dimnet

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. by Roger Rosenblatt

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. by Lois McMaster Bujold

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Children need models more than they need critics. by Jeseph Joubert

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. by Socrates

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent. by John Dewey

Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied. by Edmund S. Morgan

Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. by Maya Angelou

Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead. by Laertius Diogenes

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. by Ellen Frankfort

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. by Jeseph Joubert

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body. by Pythagoras

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. by Francis Bacon

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable. by Anon.

Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. by Yassir Arafat

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. by Lord Chesterfield

Chris says it's all in the doing, but to tell you the truth, there's a lot to be said for the having. by Jeff Melvoin

CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience by Jeffrey Vlaming

CHRIS What's art, Holling Is a Davinci art Dada art If you wrap up the whole Reichstag in toilet paper, is that art HOLLING Well, I can't give you a complete definition, but I think it would be something Maurice would be willing to give good money for. CHRIS Yeah, well, you're starting to scare me cause if that's art, then I got to get a whole new gig. by Jeff Melvoin

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them by Jules Feiffer

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all. by Saint Augustine

Christ is the Master the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic though Judas, Ananias, Pilate or Herod were its author. by Martin Luther

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness. by John Calvin

Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed. by Martin Luther

Christ's first coming was to fulfill a mission, a purpose. He came to suffer, die, and be raised again. These happened and yielded results effective for the present time and into eternity. by Roger Anderson

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune. by Phillips Brooks

Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it. by John Leax

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. by Jacques Maritain

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. by Clive Staples Lewis

Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit. by W. G. Morrice

Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. by Oren Arnold

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. by Washington Irving

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it. by Richard Lamm

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. by Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends. by Larry Wilde

Christmas night, stars shine bright, and all the angels are singing. 'The Son of God is Born' Little child, holy child, how I want to be near you, this blessed Christmas night. by Garry Gamble

Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes. by Joan Winmill Brown

Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. by Augusta E. Rundell

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me. by William James

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. by James Allen

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. by Euripides

Citius, Altius, Fortius by Olympic Motto

Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Civility costs nothing and buys everything. by Mary Wortley Montagu

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. by Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. by Will Durant

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. by Amos Bronson Alcott

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity. by Luther Standing Bear

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. by Mark Twain

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. by Jane Addams

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. by Herbert Spencer

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song. by Will Durant

Civilization is a transient sickness. by Robinson Jeffers

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. by Max Nordau

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. by Julian Jaynes

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. by Ayn Rand

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. by Timothy Leary

Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Clarence Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit. by Coming to America

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. by Blaise Pascal

Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it. by Ann Landers

Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you. by Geof Greenleaf

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. by Kin Hubbard

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. by Samuel Johnson

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. by Benjamin Disraeli

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt. by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cleo McDowell Look... me and the McDonald's people got this little misunderstanding. See, they're McDonald's... I'm McDowell's. They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs. They got the Big Mac, I got the Big Mick. We both got two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, but their buns have sesame seeds. My buns have no seeds. by Coming to America

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. by Frank Moore Colby

Climb mountains to see lowlands. by Chinese Proverb

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. by John Muir

Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people. by Arthur McNallan

Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be. by Ted Rall

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. by Mark Twain

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. by Arthur C. Clarke

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. by Herb Caen

COFFEE.EXE missing. Insert cup and press any key. by Anon.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum by Ambrose Bierce

Cogito ergo sum. by Rene Descartes

Cogito, ergo, sum. (I think therefore I am.) by Rene Descartes

Coincidences are spiritual puns. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Cold If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death by Mark Twain

College isn't the place to go for ideas. by Hellen Keller

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. by Robert Green Ingersoll

Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them. by George Horace Lorimer

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky. by Edgar Albert Guest

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. by John Donne

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love. by Jalal ud-Din Rumi

Come to the edgeHe said. They said We are afraid.Come to the edgeHe said. They came.He pushed them, andthey flew... by Guillaume Apollinaire

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare by Blair Houghton

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. by Wilfred Wilson Gibson

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. by Hfiz

Comedy is allied to justice. by Aristophenes

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. by Pico Iyer

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. by Peter Ustinov

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. by Edward Albee

Comedy is tragedy plus time. by Carol Burnett

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love. by King Soloman

Comfort ye, my people speak ye peace, thus saith our God. Comfort those who sit in darkness, mourning 'neath their sorrow's load. For the glory of the Lord now o'er earth is shed abroad and all flesh shall see the token that His word is never broken. by Isaiah 401-8 Bible

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. by Kahlil Gibran

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. by Henry Ford

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information. by W, Willard Wirtz

Comments are free but facts are sacred. by Charles Prestwich Scott

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying. by Dr. Robert Schuller

Commitment in the face of conflict produces character. by Unknown

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. by Howard Thurman

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. by Fred Allen

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying. A man's identity is not best thought of as the way in which he is separated from his fellows but the way in which he is united with them. by Robert Terwilliger

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other. by Donald G. Smith

Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education. by Victor Hugo

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen. by Albert Einstein

Common sense is the best sense I know of. by Lord Chesterfield

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. by Albert Einstein

Common sense often makes good law. by William Orville Douglas

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. by Frank Zappa

Communism is like one big phone company. by Lenny Bruce

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. by Will Rogers

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. by Mao Zedong

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. by Adlai Stevenson

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. by H.L. Mencken

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all. by Theodore Isaac Rubin

Compassion is the basis of all morality. by Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. by Henry Ward Beecher

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. by Laurence J. Peter

Competition between individuals sets one against the other and undermines morale, but competition between organizations builds morale and encourages creativity. by Unknown

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. by Jerry Flint

Complain to one who can help you. by Yugoslav Proverb

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. by Lynn Johnston

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. by Andr Gide

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both. by Tryon Edwards

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. by E. W. Dijkstra

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. by Pablo Picasso

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. by James Magary

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. by Andy Rooney

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. by Marcus Valerius Martialis

Conceit causes more conversation than wit. by La Rochefoucauld

Conceit is God's gift to little men. by Bruce Barton

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. by Alexander Graham

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. by Arnold Palmer

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. by Ray Knight

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. by Albert Einstein

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. by Karen Horney

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self. by Erich Fromm

Confessed faults are half mended. by Scottish Proverb

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. by Peter T. McIntyre

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. by William Pitt

Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword. by Zig Ziglar

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success. by Mary O'Hare Dumas

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part. by Aimee Mullins

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional. by Max Lucado

Conform and be dull. by J. Frank Dobie

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. by Jerry Gillies

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. by Spiro T. Agnew

Confusion is always the most honest response. by Marty Indik

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. by Michael J. Gelb

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. by George Crane

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. by Yogi Berra

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. by Barber B. Conable, Jr

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees. by Boris Marshalov

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. by Henri Frdric Amiel

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. by Saint Augustine

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. by H.L. Mencken

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. by Henry Louis Mencken

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. by Karl Barth

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. by Benjamin Disraeli

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. by John Stuart Mill

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come. by Aristotle

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again. by Alighieri Dante

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles. by Marquis de Sade

Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. by Dante Alighieri

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. by Gertrude Stein

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. by Aldous Huxley

Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. by Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind. by John Sloan

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. by Bernard Berenson

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. by Thorstein Veblen

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another. by La Rochefoucauld

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,but with what it is still possible for you to do. by Pope John XXIII

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. by Seneca

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. by Stanley Marcus

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways. by Akhenaton

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. by Joseph Addison

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships. by Ibycus

Continental people have sex-lives the English have hot-water bottles. by George Mikes

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. by Black Elk

Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation. by Andrew Schneider

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. by Ayn Rand

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. by Peter Ustinov

Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. by Epictetus

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. by William Shakespeare

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. by Edgar Allan Poe

Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed. by Abraham Lincoln

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer by George Price

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. by Johann von Goethe

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. by Anouk Aimee

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. by Thomas Savage

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. by A. Whitney Griswold

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. by Marie Louise De La Ramee

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. by John Gunther

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having. by Juvenal

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. by Robert Brault

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. by Publilius Syrus

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire. by Honore' de Balzac

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years. by Unknown

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. by Gertrude Stein

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. by Johann von Goethe

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. by John Quincy Adams

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped. by Earl Nightingale

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply. by Vicki Baum

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery. by Julie Arabi

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared. by David Ben-Gurion

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage. by Unknown

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. by John Wayne

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened. by William Franklin Billy Graham

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. by Eddie Rickenbacker

Courage is fear that has said its prayers. by Dorothy Bernard

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. by Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is grace under pressure. by Ernest Hemingway

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. by La Rochefoucauld

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. by Napoleon I

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction. by Julian Weber Gordon

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. by Black Hawk

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. by Clive Staples Lewis

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. by Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow. by Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. by Agesilaus the Second

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. by Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Courage is saying, Maybe what I'm doing isn't working maybe I should try something else. by Anna Lappe

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. by Frances Rodman

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. by Harold Wilson

Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined.... by Leo C. Rosten

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. by Aristotle

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. by Brendan Francis Behan

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. by Clare Booth Luce

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. by Raymond Lindquist

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. by Amelia Earhart

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear. by Amelia Earhart

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things. by Amelia Earhart Putnam

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. by Joseph Addison

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. by Ruth Gordon

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. by Carl Hermann Voss

Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you. by Missy Good

Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are. by Joan L. Curcio

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. by Laurence Sterne

Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right by William Punshon

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire. by Ernest Hemingway

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. by John Gay

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. by William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once. by William Shakespeare

Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it. by Euripides

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings. by Mitchell Burgess

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. by Michael J. Gelb

Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 120) while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God What marvelous grace and glory. by William Hallman

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. by Anna Freud

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form. by Thomas Troward

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form. by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything. by George Lois

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven. by I Ching

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. by Rita Mae Brown

Creativity comes from zeal to do something, generally it is to make some money. by B. J. Gupta

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. by Edward De Bono

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. by Cecil B. DeMille

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. by Scott Adams

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. by Lou Dorfsman

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. by Mary Lou Cook

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better. by John Updike

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated. by Alexander Osborn

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. by William Plomer

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. by Edwin H. Land

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. by Michele Shea

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago by Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. by Norman Podhoretz

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. by Clarence Day

Creditors have better memories than debtors. by Benjamin Franklin

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. by Charles Lamb

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. by Alfred E. Newman

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. by Emma Goldman

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil. by Marquis de Sade

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. by Anon.

Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it. by Anon.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. by Jean Genet

Criminal A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. by Howard Scott

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. by Zeuxis

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. by H.L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. by Henry Louis Mencken

Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all. by Lavina Goodell

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. by Brendan Francis Behan

Critics I love every bone in their heads. by Eugene O'Neill

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. by Peter Ustinov

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. by H. G. Wells

Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims. by Morris Raphael Cohen

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. by William Shakespeare

Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.) by Danish proverb

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. by William Powell

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind. by John W. Hanley

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. by George Santayana

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. by Thomas Wolfe

Culture makes all men gentle. by Menander

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. by Richard Whately

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. by Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is the key to creativity. by Akio Morita

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. by William Arthur Ward

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. by Steven Wright

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. by James Stephens

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. by Agatha Christie

Custom is the great guide of human life. by David Hume

Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. by William Gibson

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. by Lillian Hellman

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. by Peggy Noonan

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. by Robert Anton Wilson